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Ardoq for U.S. Public Sector Architecture

Statewide visibility. Agency autonomy. Confident decision-making.

Ardoq, procured through Carahsoft, helps U.S. public sector organizations gain clear visibility into their IT landscape, drive modernization with confidence, and meet governance, risk, and compliance requirements—without forcing centralization or disrupting agency autonomy.

Ardoq supports both statewide governing IT organizations and individual agencies, enabling a shared architectural foundation that scales from local execution to statewide oversight.

Solutions for Statewide Architecture

  • Statewide Visibility and Oversight

    Ardoq enables governing IT organizations to establish a statewide architectural view across autonomous agencies, creating visibility, comparability, and accountability.

    Key outcomes:

    • Clear portfolio visibility across all participating agencies
    • A single statewide view of applications owned and managed by individual agencies
    • Standardized reporting for road mapping, cost reduction, and regulatory needs
    • Identification of redundant or overlapping systems across silos
    • Cost avoidance through informed consolidation and modernization
    • Stronger, evidence-based oversight for CIOs, budget offices, and auditors
  • Federated Enterprise Architecture Model

    Ardoq’s statewide architecture is built on a federated EA model designed for public-sector environments—enabling consistent statewide insight while allowing agencies to operate independently.

    • Supports multi-instance autonomy: Each agency operates its own Ardoq environment and retains full ownership of its data.
    • Enables standardization: Agencies can leverage statewide EA standards to align on real-time reporting, shared reference models, and governance frameworks—supporting consistent execution of initiatives such as cloud adoption, AI enablement, and broader modernization efforts.​​​​​​​
    • Delivers statewide insight: Governing IT gains clear visibility and comparability—standardizing where it matters while preserving flexibility where it’s needed.

Core Capabilities for Governing & Individual Agencies

  • Visibility

    See what you have. Cut the waste. Build the baseline.

    Ardoq provides a living, continuously updated view of systems, applications, owners, business capabilities, processes, and their interdependencies—creating a trusted baseline for decision-making.

    With this visibility, agencies can:

    • Identify redundant systems and overlapping capabilities
    • Understand application costs, ownership, and lifecycle status
    • Improve efficiency and spend transparency
    • Provide leadership with defensible, evidence-based insight

    Common visibility-driven use cases include:

    • Application Rationalization
    • IT Cost Management & Lifecycle Management
    • Business Value Streams
    • Application Hosting
    • Application Integration Management
    • Business Health Checks
    • Business Process Management
    • Data Lineage
    • Technical Capability Modelling
  • Transformation

    Design the future. Prioritize change. Drive execution.

    Ardoq connects current-state architecture to future-state planning, helping agencies move from strategy to execution with clarity and alignment.

    By grounding transformation in real architectural data, agencies can:

    • Plan and sequence modernization initiatives
    • Prioritize investments based on impact, risk, and value
    • Align technology decisions to business and mission outcomes

    Key enabling capabilities include:

    • Current-state and future-state modelling: Design target architectures and compare scenarios without duplicating effort.
    • Impact and dependency analysis: Understand downstream effects of modernization, cloud migration, or system retirement.​​​​​​​
    • Road mapping and scenario planning: Sequence initiatives, align to funding cycles, and prioritize change based on complexity, risk and value.​​​​​​​
    • Integration with planning and delivery tools: Connect architecture insights to portfolios, programs, and execution teams.

    These capabilities support transformation initiatives such as cloud migration and strategy-to-execution alignment within or across agencies.

  • Governance, Risk & Compliance

    Public sector agencies face constant regulatory change, legacy constraints, and increasing scrutiny. Ardoq provides the architectural evidence needed to proactively manage risk and demonstrate compliance.

    Agencies use Ardoq to:

    • Track and manage application and technology risk
    • Maintain authoritative architecture records
    • Support audits with traceable, up-to-date documentation
    • Monitor technical debt and portfolio health
    • Stay aligned with evolving state and federal mandates

    Governance and compliance solution areas include:

    • Application Risk Management
    • Architecture Records
    • Compliance Assurance
    • Regulatory Compliance
    • Solution Health Checks
    • Technical Debt Management
    • Technology Portfolio Management

How Ardoq Delivers These Outcomes

A dynamic architecture platform built for public sector scale

Ardoq replaces static documentation with a living architecture model that reflects how agencies actually operate—designed for individual and federated, multi-agency environments.

Key platform capabilities include:

  • Flexible data model that adapts to statewide standards while allowing agency-specific needs
  • Automated data collection and surveys to replace spreadsheets and manual updates
  • Graph-based relationship mapping across systems, capabilities, processes, and data
  • Current-state and future-state modelling with impact and dependency analysis​​​​​​​
  • Road mapping and scenario planning aligned to funding and delivery cycles​​​​​​​
  • Role-based dashboards and reporting for executives, architects, program leaders, and auditors​​​​​​​
  • Lifecycle, risk, and health scoring to identify end-of-life systems and technical debt​​​​​​​
  • Continuous updates so architecture and compliance data reflect reality—not point-in-time snapshots

Built for Public Sector Realities

Ardoq is purpose-built for public sector operating models:

  • Supports federated, multi-instance deployments
  • Enables standardization without centralization
  • Scales from individual agencies to statewide oversight
  • Proven across U.S. state agencies and governing IT organizations